Country Lifestyles
Generations of History in One Place – The Chisum/Waide Ranch History
Jessica Crabtree
Today if you google a map of Denton County, Texas, zooming in to Bolivar, Texas, you will see roads by the name Chisum and Waide. They extend from Bolivar and on west to Slidell. To the unaware, the two roads, names and where they lead offer little to no interest. I assure you, given just a moment’s insight behind both names, your curiosity will be peaked.
Years ago, back in the ’60s, George Seals leased a ranch from two sisters, Bethal Waide and Clara Mae (Waide) Leavitt. The lease lasted 23 years. Seals is a former profile from the October 2016 NTFR issue. It was stated prior he bought out his father’s farm in 1965. That included his cattle and equipment. At the time, the Waide Ranch was 320 acres; prior to that, in all its glory, the ranch was 640 acres. It was made up of rolling hills, open, and tucked back where no one from the road could see it. Seals ran cows and calves on the place.
Producing oats, Seals would wean his calves and feed them with a self-feeder of oats until fattened when he would ship them to market. Often Seals and his late wife Nita found interesting objects or remnants from the past. Seals, a historian and reader by nature, gobbled it all up. That even included a saddle horse gate on the west side of the Waide Ranch, just a half mile southeast of Cove Hollow, the hideout of Sam Bass, a well-known train robber from the 1870s.
To read more pick up a copy of the November 2016 NTFR issue or call 940-872-5922 to subscribe.
By Lacey Vilhauer
Ingredients:
1 whole lemon, seeded and roughly chopped
2 cups sugar
2 pounds strawberries, hulled
Juice of 1 to 2 lemons
¼ cup water
Directions:
Place the chopped lemon and sugar in a food processor and pulse until combined. Transfer to a large bowl. Puree the strawberries in a food processor and add to the lemon mixture along with juice of one lemon and water. Taste and add more juice as desired.
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By Nicholas Waters
As winter plods along – come Spring and gopher mounds – homeowners and farmers find themselves playing a familiar song – fiddling while Rome is burning.
Let’s make a mountain out of a molehill. Those mounds on your lawn and pasture could be moles, but they’re more than likely gophers; Plains Pocket Gophers to be pragmatic – Geomys bursarius to be scientific.
These rodents dig and chew, and the damage they can do goes beyond the mounds we mow over. Iowa State University cited a study in Nebraska showing a 35 percent loss in irrigated alfalfa fields due to the presence of pocket gophers; the number jumped to 46 percent in decreased production of non-irrigated alfalfa fields.
The internet is replete with academic research from coast-to-coast on how to curtail gopher populations, or at least control them. Kansas State University – then called Kansas State Agricultural College – also published a book [Bulletin 152] in February 1908 focused exclusively on the pocket gopher.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Annette Bridges
Everyone needs a room with a view that makes their heart happy. My honest favorite panorama would be either the mountains or the ocean. I have yet to convince my hubby to make permanent moves to either, although he does enjoy the visits as much as I do.
The location of our house on our ranch does not provide the expansive field of vision of our land that I would enjoy. So, I have created a room decorated and furnished in a way that gives me smiles, giggles, and a wonderful peace-filled feeling when I am hanging out in it. I am in that place right now writing this column. I am in a lounging position with my computer in my lap on the chaise that was once my sweet mama’s. I had it reupholstered this year to give it a fresh look.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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